Yuri Gargarin - Would he be more famous as an American?

[aufbahrung]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/science-e ... t-56690949

Everyone recalls Neil Armstrong, the first man to plant a white flag on the moon for to signal Earths surrender to the coming alien armada. But does anyone even know there was a first man in space before him these days?

[Tero]

no, not America..has lyrics translated
my favorite line: do you see the money move down there?




band live...lacking the "Pink Floyd" children's choir

[Brian Peacock]

Famous for what?

[pErvinalia]

He wasn't the first great ape in space, though.

[L'Emmerdeur]

Can the average person on the street tell you who the first American in space was? Would they be more likely to remember that than Gargarin's place in history? I don't think so.

Don't sell Russian propaganda efforts short. They may not have the saturation level that American propagandists have, but they've always done an effective job as these things go. Gargarin probably would be slightly more famous if he had been American, but at this point I think the difference is minimal. It's all so last century, dude.

[Brian Peacock]

If he'd been American they would have named an airport after him.

[L'Emmerdeur]

The Russians did think of that, and recently doubled down.

[laklak]

The average person in the street is, from all indications, thick as pig shit.

[Hermit]

The average person in the street is, from all indications, thick as pig shit.

And half the population is even worse than that.

Congratulations for being so above average, laklak.

[Seabass]

Yuri Gargarin - Would he be more famous as an American?

Probably. He'd probably also be more plump.

Then again, now that I think about it, our astronauts tend to stay pretty fit even after they retire from um astronauting. I can't thnk of a single chubby US astronaut. Maybe we solve our obesity problem by forcing all Merkins to become astronauts...

[Hermit]

The first man-made satellite to orbit earth was named...?

A year later the US launched its first satellite. Its name was...?

[Tero]

Yuri Gargarin - Would he be more famous as an American?

Probably. He'd probably also be more plump.

Then again, now that I think about it, our astronauts tend to stay pretty fit even after they retire from um astronauting. I can't thnk of a single chubby US astronaut. Maybe we solve our obesity problem by forcing all Merkins to become astronauts...

I think the Russian cosmonauts should have been fatter. For the hard landings. Ours landed in water.

[Tero]

The first man-made satellite to orbit earth was named...?

A year later the US launched its first satellite. Its name was...?

it's not a real satellite unless there is a surf instrumental named after it:

[Tero]

Then we have the Swedish Spotnicks playing Telstar, covering East and West:

[laklak]

The average person in the street is, from all indications, thick as pig shit.

And half the population is even worse than that.

Congratulations for being so above average, laklak.

Aw shucks, I can't take credit. My Dad was smart enough to fuck a smart woman.